Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marx's main purpose was to prove that capitalism matures into a monster and collapses from the ineluctable logic of its own laws, which tend to create monopolies and to oppress an increasingly impoverished working class. He introduced the theory of the surplus value of labor, which held that a commodity's value is determined solely by the labor that goes into it; as Marx saw it, the capitalist pays the worker only a poor part of the real value of his output while skimming off the surplus as unjust profit. In perhaps the most widely touted passage...
Hardy Minority. Considering that the Beatles' trademark is offbeat irreverence, their effect on mature audiences is odd ly amusing. If the teeny-boppers made the Beatles plaster gods, many adults make them pop prophets, and tend to theorize solemnly, instead of seriously, about their significance. The Rev. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, says that "no entity hits as many sensitive people as these guys do." Napier, who has dwelt in past sermons on Yellow Submarine and Eleanor Rigby, is convinced that Sgt. Pepper "lays bare the stark loneliness and terror of these lonely times...
Pressures have risen as the market for freelancers has dwindled. Magazines that used to welcome material-Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American-have gone out of business. Others, like the Saturday Evening Post, have retrenched, taken on contract writers and discouraged freelancers. The more prosperous publications tend to rely on their own staffs and provide them with the resources to do a more thorough job than freelancers would ordinarily be capable of. A staff writer who leaves a publication to escape editing can often end up being edited more heavily than ever. "When I think...
...Novelist Constantine FitzGibbon, intellectuals tend to follow a double standard. If the war happens to trigger their emotions, they don't worry much about moral behavior. "If the struggle is remote," he writes, "it can be viewed as an intellectual exercise and a moral problem. Stern judgments can then be handed down, and safely. It would seem that for the run-of-the-mill intellectual, the less he knows about a complex issue far away the stronger his moral judgments...
Half comedy, half drama, Flim Flam is really two films that, superimposed, tend to cancel each other out. The drama tries for realism, indicts mankind for the universal greed and gullibility upon which parasites like the Flim Flam Man prosper. But the actors who play his prey all deliver caricatures instead of portraits in a gallery of outlandish Southern yahoos such as never dwelt outside Dogpatch...